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-26- • hundred times of even just the mined area. The estimate is that in wetter areas than this, I'll submit, that you can get 57,000 some tons per square meter per year of soil erosion just from the haul roads. Square mile - every square mile of the haul roads. And if you look roughly again, I don't have all the data here, look roughly again at the 30 acres of haul roads that are proposed within this area, one acre is 640th of a square mile so if you make a calculation you find out what you have is a potential of 2,000 to 3,000 tons per square mile, per year, of erosion from the haul roads. Now, I do not see addressed in arty of the proceedings what will happen in order to contain some of this erosion. Is this going to end up down in the Rito Seco River? I don't think that has been addressed at all. It represents a very major erosion potential. Finally, I would like to say in terms of the maintenance of the system - long term. We have sedimentation ponds that have been properly designed, good engineering design, around the east and the west pits. I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with the fact that a mere statement that there • will be very little generation of sediment does not suffice, at Beast not for me. I think that you can't help but get -- unless you have absolutely perfect reclamation all along during the operation of the mine -- you're going to have some sediment generation. And at the end of seven years, the enA of the nine years, whatever that period is, when the sediment ponds fill and there is really - and maybe it's ten years down the road - maybe it's 15 years down the road -maybe it's beyond the level of whatever bond is put forth„ then what happens? What happens is the sediment ponds fill and you get the run-off from the sediment and you get whatever acid bearing or metal bearing materials overland and probably to the Rito Seco River. I think that goes with the planting also -long term maintenance. You can get an initial success of the plants, you have to maintain that, you have to keep after that on the long-term. The success rate is fairly low in the Colorado area. And I didn't see anything really about the long-term maintenance of the reclamation in the system and the maintenance of the sedimentation ponds. And I think with those comments that's all I really have to say. Thank you.